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Managing Risk, with Love is a transformative training session designed for residential childcare professionals who want to move beyond risk-averse, compliance-led cultures and embrace emotionally intelligent, trauma-informed, and love-led approaches to safeguarding. Rooted in the Lighthouse Model and lessons from the Creating Safer Organisations (CSO) programme, this training helps teams reframe risk not simply as something to mitigate, but as a meaningful communication of unmet needs. It provides a coherent model that honours both emotional connection and professional accountability.
The course draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, and lived experience to explore how loving, safe relationships when scaffolded by robust governance can de-escalate risk, reduce harm, and build psychological safety. Through reflective exercises, real-world examples, and practical tools, participants will develop confidence to manage risk in ways that protect children’s rights, hold therapeutic intent, and maintain relational integrity.
This training aims to reframe risk management in residential childcare as a relational and therapeutic act. It seeks to empower adults to respond to risk behaviour with curiosity, compassion, and co-regulation, while remaining within the bounds of professional safeguarding frameworks. By aligning trauma-informed insights with regulatory duties, the course encourages a culture where love is not feared but supported through ethical leadership, reflective systems, and values-led practice. The training further aims to support staff and leaders to hold complexity without becoming defensive, and to embed a relational safeguarding culture that supports healing.
The objectives of this course are for participants to:
Define risk through a trauma-informed and love-led lens.
Explain how early trauma and attachment disruption manifest in risk behaviours.
Identify common barriers to emotionally intelligent risk management in care settings.
Apply relational risk frameworks that prioritise connection, co-regulation, and emotional formulation.
Demonstrate how safeguarding systems and professional boundaries can hold, rather than suppress, loving care.
Recognise the role of leadership, supervision, and governance in modelling safe, relational responses to risk.
Integrate Lighthouse Model principles into daily decision-making, especially in high-stress or safeguarding-critical situations.
Align their practice with key statutory guidance (Children’s Homes Regulations 2015, SCCIF, Supported Accommodation Standards 2023), ensuring that love-led care is not only defensible but expected.
TESTIMONIALS
What our clients say about our courses
Your training has been invaluable, deepening our understanding of recording and its implications. Feedback has been unanimous - this work has led to more individualised care, better outcomes, and a greater sense of safety for our children.
Head of Operations
Leanne’s training has transformed our safeguarding approach, enhancing knowledge and confidence while equipping staff with practical skills. This has improved daily practices and created a safer, more supportive environment for the children.
Director
The annual quality report reflects significant growth and commitment this year—thank you for sharing. Recent discussions highlight how training has clarified needs, expectations, and processes, making everyone feel safer and more accountable. This is a testament to the relentless efforts of you, Leanne, and the wider management team.
Business Manager
The training was highly valuable. The trainer was knowledgeable and approachable, making complex topics easier to understand. It reinforced my understanding of safeguarding and clarified the DSL role, helping me and my team leaders navigate grey areas. I feel more confident in my role as an RM and will refer back to our policies to ensure compliance.
Registered Manager
The safeguarding training I attended was highly informative and practical, offering valuable real world examples that I can apply directly in my role. The trainer’s expertise and the interactive elements made the session engaging and memorable, boosting my confidence in handling safeguarding concerns. It was a great refresher, and I would highly recommend it to anyone in a safeguarding role.
Residential Support Worker
I recently completed a Suicide and Self-Harm training session, and I am incredibly impressed with the depth and quality of the content. Leanne was both knowledgeable and engaging, providing clear, actionable guidance on handling sensitive topics such as ligature safety, self-harm recognition, and prevention techniques. The training not only expanded my knowledge but also equipped me with practical tools to identify warning signs and respond appropriately in crisis situations. I feel more confident in supporting individuals who may be struggling with these issues and am grateful for the resources provided. I highly recommend this training to anyone in the field, it’s a vital learning experience that will significantly enhance your ability to safeguard and support vulnerable individuals.
Registered Manager